{"id":309,"date":"2006-02-16T09:24:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T08:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2006-02-16T09:26:31","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T08:26:31","slug":"philip-k-dick-is-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Philip K Dick is missing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An android, called Phil, based on the author Philip K. Dick has gone walkabout and no-one&#8217;s quite sure where. Dick wrote the novels that inspired films such as <em>Total Recall<\/em>, <em>Minority Report<\/em>, and, most ironically, <em>Blade Runner<\/em>. The latter being a story about artificial humans attempting to escape their predestined roles.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Along with an eerie likeness to the author, the robot features award-winning artificial intelligence that mimics the writer&#8217;s mannerisms and lifelike skin material to affect realistic expressions.<\/p>\n<p>Top-of-the-line voice software loaded with data from Dick&#8217;s vast body of writing allows the robot to carry on natural-sounding conversations, although it does come off as a bit doddering at times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As William Gibson (from whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamgibsonbooks.com\/blog\/2006_02_01_archive.asp#113994732781366799\">blog<\/a> I got the link from) wrote: &#8216;Can&#8217;t. Make. It. Up.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/world\/author-android-goes-missing\/2006\/02\/13\/1139679514495.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An android, called Phil, based on the author Philip K. Dick has gone walkabout and no-one&#8217;s quite sure where. Dick wrote the novels that inspired films such as Total Recall, Minority Report, and, most ironically, Blade Runner. The latter being a story about artificial humans attempting to escape their predestined roles. Along with an eerie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philip K Dick is missing!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phd","category-weird-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bQqr-4Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}